Re: pxes 0.8 (gentoo) problem - cannot open initial console - cannot mount devfs

Nick Rout <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.pxes.devel
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On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:42:23 +1000
"Tim Bates" <[email protected]> wrote:

> It should let you boot with a different server for tftp and dhcp... Did you
> use the "next-server" option? I personally have only done the 2 servers
> thing once, but it worked OK.
> Possibly, if you already have done this, the PXE implementation you have on
> that particular card is a little dodgy.

I suspect that is true, i saw mention of it being a problem with some
earlier implementations of pxe.

anyway, that is not my primary concern as I can get the kernel loaded with
etherboot, its the next bit that isn't working


> 
> > I am booting from etherboot on a floppy rather than pxe, as pxe doesn't
> > seem to handle the tftp server being on a different box to the dhcp
> 
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